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Splunk launched a new set of generative AI tools across its products, security operations additions, and data management applications as well as more Cisco integrations.
Constellation Research analysts R "Ray" Wang, Doug Henschen, Andy Thurai, and Chirag Mehta tune in live from Zoholics at the Convention Center in Austin, Texas to discuss the latest announcements, trends, and technology from the Zoho conference, including how Zoho is enabling the ability to drive down margin compression.
Watch the full interview!
Cloud hell may have just frozen over as Oracle and Google Cloud outlined a partnership that gives enterprises an option to combine Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud.
For any enterprise technology veteran who remembers Oracle and Google duking it out in court over Android and Java, the partnership is almost like a trip through bizarro world. Oracle also has a similar partnership with Microsoft Azure. To that end, OpenAI is also now buying capacity from Oracle via the OCI and Azure tie-up.
V. Nowak, Group Chief Customer Experience Officer at Access Bank PLC, had an interesting problem to solve: How do you maintain and improve customer experience at a bank with multiple touchpoints and employee turnover in an emerging market?
Digital Transformation Executives Recognized for Leadership Amid 2024’s Challenging Environment and Beyond CUPERTINO, Calif – June 11, 2024 – Today, Constellation Research announced its eighth annual Business Transformation 150 (BT150), an influential list of executives who are paving new paths for exponential digital transformation.
We are thrilled and honored to announce the nominees for the 2025 Business Transformation 150 (BT150). The executives named on this year’s BT150 exemplified outstanding leadership and disruptive innovation over the past twelve months.
Fortinet is acquiring Lacework as the cybersecurity platform battle heats up.
Lacework specializes in Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). Fortinet said it will add Lacework's AI-powered platform to its Fortinet Security Fabric. Lacework has more than 1,000 customers.
Apple CEO Tim Cook outlined the company's generative AI strategy at Apple WWDC that revolves around Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system, on-device processing of large language models and a private cloud model to go along with an OpenAI partnership.
Apple's tagline was that Apple Intelligence is "AI for the rest of us."
Get the live analysis on IBM Think and the implications for customers. Constellation Research principal analyst and CEO, R "Ray" Wang shares his analysis of the announcements from IBM Think and what it means for customers starting off in their Generative AI journey.
Don't look now, but AI-optimized servers and infrastructure may be the most trendy innovation corner of technology. And the release cycle looks like it was ripped out of the Apple and Samsung playbooks.
For those that need a refresher since the smartphone industry has been boring in recent years, here's the cadence the sector used to revolve around.
Cultivating a Venture Mindset & Power of Rituals
DisrupTV Episode 365 — Dominic Rizzo, Alex Dang & Michael Norton
On DisrupTV Episode 365, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar welcome three thought leaders:
Don't forget the non-technical costs with generative AI projects as there are a bevy of ongoing maintenance to consider, said Lori Walters, Vice President, Claims and Operations Data Science at The Hartford.
Speaking at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) financial services event for analysts this week, Walters provided several takeaways about generative AI efforts and how they fit into the broader picture. I'll have more takeaways from a broader range of financial services CxOs, but the Walters comments stuck out.
Smartsheet is planning to roll out a new pricing and packaging model on June 24 to replace the four pricing tiers it has now.
Today, Smartsheet has a free tier for 1 user and up to 2 editors, a Pro version with a maximum of 10 users and unlimited viewers for $7 per user/ month, a Business plan for $25 per user/month with a minimum of 3 users and unlimited editors and Enterprise accounts.
ServiceNow's business process reengineering: "We exist to clean up the mess."
Constellation Research founder R "Ray" Wang catches up with ServiceNow Chief Strategy and Corporate Affairs Officer Nick Tzitzon during #Knowledge2024 to discuss ServiceNow's latest advancements, efficiencies, and opportunities as a platform company.
📌 Topics include use cases, margin compression, the adoption of #AI in business, and gateways to growth in the industry.
This is one convo you don't want to miss! ⬇
Welcome to ConstellationTV episode 81! 🎉 Hear co-hosts Doug Henschen and Larry Dignan analyze the latest enterprise #technology news (#AI servers, Snowflake's new CEO, #earnings).
Then watch interviews about AI's impact in different spheres of business - Liz Miller with Tara DeZao of Pegasystems about the convergence of #marketing strategy and AI, then Larry sits down with Sustainability 50 executive Sandeep Chandna of Tech Mahindra to learn about #AI transforming #ESG initiatives.
Cisco at its Cisco Live conference outlined a partnership with Nvidia to launch Nexus HyperFabric AI Clusters, a data center networking architecture for generative AI deployments.
Zoho outlined a more collaborative vision of customer relationship management, launched a series of AI-driven enhancements across its platform, upped its developer game and created a cybersecurity stack.
The barrage of announcements at the company's Zoholics 2024 conference in Austin is uniquely Zoho. The company is pushing the status quo in enterprise software and aiming to democratize various workflows and processes with its affordable stack.
Here's a look at the announcements from Zoholics 2024.
SAP said it will acquire WalkMe in a deal valued at $1.5 billion in a move that could make implementations easier and complement its process and workflow automation efforts.
CrowdStrike delivered strong first quarter earnings with revenue growth of 33%.
The cybersecurity giant reported first quarter net income of $42.8 million, or 17 cents, on revenue of $921 million. Non-GAAP earnings were 93 cents a share.
Wall Street was looking for non-GAAP earnings of 89 cents a share on revenue of $905 million.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise delivered stronger-than-expected fiscal second quarter earnings and appears to be joining the AI server sales parade.
Last quarter, HPE took its lumps over supply chain issues that hampered its AI server sales. In the second quarter, AI systems revenue more than doubled sequentially.
Databricks said it has acquired Tabular, a data management company founded by the original creators of Apache Iceberg. The companies said they're aiming to combine their open-source cred to build interoperable data formats.
Snowflake fleshed out more of its artificial intelligence strategy and announced a bevy of data management tools designed to advance enterprise AI while keeping its data analytics base in the fold. A push into native applications on the Snowflake platform highlighted how building and managing data apps will work for partners and customers.
SAP said it is infusing its Joule generative AI assistant throughout its platform and applications as it made the case that the company is using AI to drive business value.